Spice up your life with a little infusion of flavor to your H2O. With infused water you're flying high through the clouds on a magic carpet trying to find your big blue genie friend. What the hell is in this water? Amazing.
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Once the parents get them between the sheets and put the pillows in place, the children come up with a solution to the blues. The parents will have to become storytellers. They have to entertain the children with one kind of fantastic tale after another until a smooth story about something sweet and beautiful is delivered in both a soft voice and enough whispers to take the kids over the brim into that place where sleep has been waiting for them.
At this victorious point, that happiness rises up from the world of the children and inhabits the parents. It sneaks up on them but never catches them off guard because the parents have been waiting for that special happiness. In the virgin quiet of the night, their time has arrived. A joy no child ever experiences is upon them. It is the joy of romance. It is another bedtime story, one of the fairy tales that adults love to hear over and over, and to play their parts in whenever they get a chance, solely because romance provides the mask of magic that allows men and women to enter a sweltering and tender dreamland while wide awake. Mmm hm.
As Ailsa explores this new world, she learns more about its secrets, and discovers that gaining an extra hour comes at a terrible price. Can Ailsa battle both those from her own world and the faerie world who are manipulating time, and save herself and those she loves?
Thought I would write a reply as I have lots of experience with magic hour, which while not totally up to date (I've been hiding indoors a lot lately with my computer), I feel will probably still be very valid even in these times. I should however point out that these are my personal opinions and may not be shared by everyone involved in moving image work.
My personal opinion on magic hour is that it is very beautiful. I love the colours, I love the way the orange light reflects off things and the way things glow and shimmer and the way once seemingly ordinary things suddenly react in a special way. Truly it is magical I feel.
There is of course a lot of contention around the subject of magic hour. There are many cinematographers who feel than an hour just wasn't enough, and feel frustrated that they don't have enough time to work in. Some people go further and even claim that they have been shortchanged on occasion and havn't even got a full hour! Theres obviously been quite a lot of demand in the past to extend magic hour. Call me a conservative, but while I understand these opinions, I feel that extending magic hour might devalue it. I feel people might start to overuse magic hour as a cheap trick and it would cease to be quite so magical. Also it should be pointed out that extending magic hour would mean a corresponding reduction in the other hours which might have a detrimental effect to those who don't tend to work with this paticular aesthetic. I understand there are some regional variations on magic hour too (some places have set their magic hour at different times it would appear) so it might be worthwhile getting peoples opinions in other parts of the globe on this kind of thing.
More recently there has been some suggestion that with the new digital techniques we have now, magic hour is basically obsolete and is no longer needed as it can basically be efectively be created in post with cgi and advanced colour correction, eliminating the worry of only having an hour. These people have suggested that dedicating a whole hour to this "so called magic" is a waste, and the hour should be reverted to more conventional light which would be more versatile for different kind of looks in post. Some even go so far as to suggest that magic hour is just one of thse cinematic conventions we have become used to and isn't as real as normal light anyway. We just tend to associate it with a more cinematic look becase that is what we are used to.
Call me old fashioned but I very much believe that magic hour should stay. I would argue that it has uses outside of just cinema and photography but that many people get a great deal of pleasure out of magic hour in their everyday lives even when they are not watching it on a movie screen or filming it. It's my opinion that it has many very theraputic qualities which are often not recognised and that we would all be very much the lesser without it.
In the past I used to do quite a stressful job from which I would walk to and from each day. Sometimes this would co-incide with magic hour and I would notice how much better I felt on my walk, looking at the beautiful sky and the reflections off the buildings etc. It helped alleviate a lot of stress from the day and strangely gave me a lot of hope for the future.
I realise I've gone on a bit on this subject and I suspect that there will be a few other film makers on this site who wil also be familiar with the concept and aesthetic of magic hour, so I will wrap it up here but indeed my personal opinion on magic hour is that it is very beautiful and worth it's weight in golden.
Incredible things can be done with cgi now however, you only need to look at the pixar films. I suspect that a fake magic hour effect still wouldn't look quite right tho and would be very. very expensive compared to the real magic hour which is free. :)
Given the 'magical' quality we associate with 'Magic Hour' and the rapture we experience from it, I think it is preferable that it is done with natural light and colours. Actually, it was just pointed out to me that Kubrick's Barry Lyndon was shot almost entirely during 'Magic Hour'. There was certainly no digital trickery done with that one!
I also take magic hour to actually be the time JUST AFTER sunset or JUST BEFORE sunrise. The sky itself is your light source, rather than sunlight. It's basically the sun BOUNCING off (or defracting really) through the atmosphere. Instead of a point source of light, you have a larger and softer source.
Magic Hour in Alaska this time of year is around 6 or 7 hours. But to me magic hour is the usable portion of time, when the sun gets low enough in the sky that the extra atmosphere knocks down the contrast, and the sun becomes softer, even without a cloud diffusing it. That lasts (to me) until the sky looses its color and just goes to a low blue color. During that whole period its easy to light to maintain continuity, even in wide shots. Just before that and just after it, as David mentions, you can get closer coverage with a bit more set up. I think the fun thing about that period during the day, is the light changes so quickly you have to anticipate and plan to get the coverage you need so you can finish your day without too much compromise.
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